The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1887-08-12
A Chain Of Bright Resorts, Of Which
Sea Isle City is Q Shining Link.

Did you ever notice how many Of
the seaside resorts on the New Jer.
sey coast are on islands? From
Sandy Hook to Cape May, a distance
|of one hundred and twenty.seven
miles, is string of resorts, fully
seventy -five in number. For at least
|two.thirds of this distance the cities
by the sea are planted upon sandy
beaches out in the sea. From Sandy
Hook to Bay Head the resorts arc OF
the main land. These include Long
Branch, Asbury Park, Ocean Grove,
Ocean Beach, Spring Lake and Sea
Grit, and dozen places not as well
known. From Bay Head. at the top
of famous old Barnegat Bay, it ir
possible to sail all the way to Cape
May without going outside the chain
of islands.
First you will sail down Barnegat
Bay, passing Lavallette, Ortley,
5erkely, Seaside Park, and Island
Beach. You cross Barnegat Inlet
and skirt the shore of Long Beach
ian island), passing Barnegat City
Beach, Harvey's Cedars, Beach Hav.
en-, and Sea Haven. Across Little
Egg Harbor Bay, and you enter
Absecon Bay, Brigantine Island be-
ing between you and the ocean. At
the sunken end of Brigantine you
cross the famous inlet and find your.
self at Atlantic City. Through the
rhoroughfare and your boat takes
YOU to Longport at the end of the
island, Absecon which has Atlantic
City at the northern extremity
Across Great Egg Harbor Bay and
you reach Peck's Beach with Ocean
City. Another thoroughfare carries
you past the island to Corson's Inlet
at the northern end of Ludlam's
Beach, likewise an island, upon
which Sea Isle City is built, Then
comes a series ofbays and inlets
which lead you by Holly Beach and
Anglesea to Sewell's Point and Cape
May.
What q marvellous coast this is !
And where can anything like it be
toundp And all these resorts have
been made possible and been devel
|oped by the Pennsylvania Railroad.
1t touches everywhere. Some syn
dictate purchases strip of beach and
improves it. Next we hear of Penn
sylvania Railroad branch penetrating
it, and 10 it blossoms forth into a
full-hedged resort with hotels and
cottages. Before many years there
will be continuous line of rails from
Sandy Hook to Cape May Point
with not a mile of unoccupied beach
land.
Among these resorts you can make
your choice. There is the fashion OF
Long Branch, of Key East, of Sea
Girt, and Spring Lake: the less fash
ionable but still gay and temperate
Asbury Park; the great Methods,
camp at Ocean Grove; the restless,
crowded cosmopolitanism of Atlantic
City. and the quiet elegance of Old
Cap May. Then there ls the grand
fishing and sailing of Barnegat Bay
and the resorts Of the neighbour God,
and the equally good fishing of the
bays south Of Atlantic City. Every
body goes to Atlantic City, and rich
and poor jostle eachother on the beach
and in the hotel Hobbies. But if you
would be rid of all that; if you would
travel with bag instead of trunk,
and enjoy a free and easy life free
from the dictates of fashion, go to
Barnegat City Beach, Longport
Ocean City, Sea Isle City, and
Anglesea.
One of the newest places is Sea
lsle. 1t is of easy access, and ex-
press trains over the West Jersey
road take you direct to it in two hours.
1t is only about live years old, and
yet it rejoices in several hundred
cottages and various hotels. Many
Of these are built almost upon the
very edge of the sea, being separated
from it only by sea wall FIVE or six
feet high. The beach 10 hard as a